Woman falls to her death from Newark apartment

Newark Police are investigation the death of a woman who fell from the seventh floor of an apartment tower in the city Friday afternoon.William Perlman/The Star-Ledger

NEWARK — Police are investigating the death of a 60-year-old woman who fell from the seventh floor of a Newark apartment tower near downtown Friday afternoon.

The woman, who was not publicly identified pending notification of next of kin, fell about 3 p.m. from an apartment at 1 Court St., on the corner of Broad Street, police said.

She was taken to University Hospital where she later died.

A police spokesman said investigators from the police department’s major crimes unit are in the early stages of their investigation and were awaiting an autopsy report. He declined to say whether the incident was suspicious.